MARCUS HOOK -- A woman from Bucks County remembering her son's godfather. A veteran from Folcroft making his first visit to remember fallen comrades. A couple from Linwood paying their respects to those who had given the ultimate sacrifice.

These were among the visitors to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Moving Wall on Saturday at Market Square Memorial Park, where the half-size replica of the monument in Washington is on display through Monday.

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"It gives people in the tri-state area an opportunity to see the wall," Wayne Lamond of Norwood said. "I think people have heard so much about it, they want to see for themselves. A lot of people don't understand it."

Wearing a blue Vietnam Veterans of America Delaware County Chapter 67 polo shirt, Lamond sat at the white tent at the front of the park, sifting through a sheet listing where the name of each of the 185 Delaware County enlistees who died in Vietnam was on the wall.

Awareness of that time is something Lamond and Jim Ulmer of the same VVA have been doing for 28 years.

Having started at St. Joseph's Preparatory School, the two Vietnam veterans now have a circuit of 12 to 15 schools each year where they visit to talk about what the war was like.

Lamond served in the Navy from 1964 to 1968 and Ulmer of Upper Darby served in the Air Force from 1967 to 1971.

Ulmer served in security forces in Vietnam in 1969, making sure the perimeter of the base was secure during his 5:30 a.m. shift.

"Most of the guys on that base were 19, 20 years old," he said.

He said 111 Air Force security forces were killed during Vietnam from 1965 to 1971.

Yet, he said he had it simpler than most in theater.

"I had a shower," Ulmer said. "At the end of the day, I had my clothes neatly folded on my bed."

He said they'd often host nearby Army soldiers on base.

"Everything is like a team," he said. "He knew they had it bad. We'd feed them and wine and dine them."

It was clear from some of the visitors' reaction that many don't forget.

Tom Kelly of Folcroft brought his wife, Kathy, and son, Ryan to the Marcus Hook commemoration.

Carrying a stack of papers to rub people's names, he said, "I never got to see the wall down in Washington."

With it in Delaware County, he decided, "It's time, it's time for me to come and see it."

Kelly served in Thailand in the U.S. Army from 1969 to 1972.

"A lot of guys that I knew were killed in Vietnam," he said, after rubbing the name of Calvin Meadows Jr. on panel 24 West.

Kelly shared what it was like to be at the memorial.

"It's sad and it's happy at the same time," he said. "Sad, because I knew them when they were all young and happy to see their names honored up there."

Nokomis, who said she is only called by her one Native American name, drove one hour from Plumsteadville in Bucks County to honor a friend.

"My son's godfather was shot down over Vietnam two months in the service," she said of Wendell P. Curry. "He and his wife had been trying to years to have a baby. The day he was shot down, Marie found out she was pregnant."

She was there with Harry Baumeister of West Chester, Pa., whose eyes were red with tears.

"It's great, just a tribute to these guys," he said. "They gave up a lot. Back when it was going on, they took a lot of abuse for it."

Vietnam vet Jack Dwyer of Linwood was thankful for the Wall.

"This is really appreciated," the Army soldier who served in the 101st Airborne from 1968 to 1970 said.

He recalled reading an issue of Stars and Stripes as he served in Vietnam and seeing a neighborhood friend's name on the casualty list.

Dwyer said Tommy Aaron, also of Linwood, had a summer job in between college semesters when his draft number came up.

He said he actually visited the place in Vietnam where Aaron was killed and took a picture of that solitary mountain.

Dwyer's wife, Nancy, remembered her mom have a going-away party for their neighbor, Timothy Noden.

"When he was (pronounced) missing, it upset everybody but my mom acted like it was her own son," she said.

Ulmer said seeing the Wall gives one pause as to what the full ramifications of military conflict can be.

"It's important because people can see the gravity of war," he said. "We know but the average person says, 'Well, let's go get them.'"

And, for those who were unable to return to American shores, Ron McCaul said there was no better location to recognize their contribution.

"It's a great place to honor the 58,202 men that were killed," the Collingdale resident and commander of the American Legion Post 951 in Marcus Hook said. "It's a great honor to be able to honor these men and women on the wall."

The Traveling Vietnam Veterans Memorial will be in Marcus Hook's Market Square Memorial Park through 3 p.m. Monday when closing ceremonies will be held.